© GM Business CES 2025: From Acer, Asus and Cherry to LG and Xbox PC and peripheral manufacturers in particular like to use the CES in Las Vegas as an opportunity to present new gaming models. This was also the case in 2025, when there were new handhelds, laptops, keyboards and gaming collaborations. Acer, for example, traveled to Las Vegas with new handhelds. The By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
© Paramount Business Sonic Breaks the $1 Billion Box Office Mark With its latest box office takings, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has now grossed over $312 million. This brings the cumulative box office revenue of the Sonic movie franchise past the $1 billion mark—a tremendous achievement, though another video game character managed to reach this milestone with a single movie. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group, AMD © AMD Business AMD Announces New Gaming CPUs, and Somehow RDNA 4 Too At CES 2025, AMD announced new CPUs for desktop, mobile and handheld gaming. GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture were also unveiled, although they were missing from the keynote. AMD announced new gaming products for desktop, mobile and handheld gaming at CES 2025. The company unveiled new Ryzen 9900X3D By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Fonce © Ciné-Litté Business Creative Europe Media 2024: €7.7M Euros for European Video Games 41 games benefit from €7.7 million Creative Europe Media Video Games funding in 2024, six games projects from Germany (€1.3 million) and one from Austria. Among the games receiving funding is Fonce, a tale of love and war by Cologne-based Ciné-Litté Productions. It is an interactive, animated VR By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Ravi Ahuja, CEO und President Sony Pictures © Screenshot/Sony's CES 2025 press conference Business Sony's Strategy of Expanding Game IPs with New Movies and Series At CES, Sony announced new film projects for Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2, an anime series based on Ghost of Tsushima, and the launch of the second season of The Last of Us TV series. It became clear that the cross-media exploitation of IPs is a strategy for the By Team Gamesmarkt • 2 min read
Part of the Paintbucket Games team. © Paintbucket Games Website Business Paintbucket Games Develops Game for Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) has selected Paintbucket Games to develop a game for the project 'Demokratieraum. Die "Landshut" in Friedrichshafen' with a volume of €400,000. 41 studios took part in the tender. The German Federal Agency for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Dr Oliver Daum © Daum Esports Dr Oliver Daum Appointed 2nd Chairman of the Esports Association of Schleswig-Holstein The E-Sport Association of Schleswig-Holstein has appointed Dr Oliver Daum, a lawyer from Kiel, as its new 2nd chairman. With effect from 1 January 2025, he will take over from Jana Möglich, who held the position until May 2024. Dr Oliver Daum has not only legal expertise, but also a By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Sandro Wildi (Eagle Capital Partners AG), Stefan Grosser, Fritz Feissli (Promopers), Markus Oeller (1SP Agency), Nicolas Purpura (Promopers), Roger Wyss (Tax Consultant) © 1SP Business 1SP Agency Strengthens Retail and Sales Marketing With Acquisition of Swiss Company promoPers Hamburg-based 1SP Agency has acquired promoPers, a Swiss agency specialising in retail, sales, personnel and channel marketing. By expanding into the Swiss market, the international marketing company not only strengthens its global presence, but also expands its service portfolio. One day before Christmas, when most of the games industry was By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Luis Quintero/Pexels Business Exhibitions, Conferences, Events - the Industry's Upcoming Dates From local indie meet-ups to the global gamescom, the updated version of the GamesMarkt event calendar shows where you can meet the German games industry. Whether it's a fan festival, an esports competition or a traditional trade fair, the games industry is all about making personal contacts and By Team Gamesmarkt • 6 min read
© Steininger Business Restart of Federal Game Funding with Restrictions and Reservations Immediately after Christmas, the German government surprised the games industry by restarting federal funding, albeit under less favorable conditions. The absence of a 2025 budget means uncertainty looms over how much funding will be available for larger projects and when it might run out again. While questions remain, the restart By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© GM Business Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The GamesMarkt team is taking a well-deserved holiday break, and we’d like to extend our warmest wishes to all our readers for a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year 2024 was a challenging year for many, both in the German and international games industry, and it was By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
Distribution Channels for Games © GamesMarkt, PP Business The Games Industry's Perspective on 2025 - Part #5: Products & Distribution By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
